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A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday sentenced 10 people found guilty of child trafficking to 10 years in jail, part of an effort to clamp down on organised networks that smuggle children to work ...
Ivory Coast's Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) has helped the national police to seize three trucks loaded with 1,500 bags of cocoa beans on the border with Guinea, the regulator's managing director ...
Cocoa smuggling is the illegal transportation of cocoa beans across an international border, in contravention of local laws and regulations. It is particularly an issue in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the world's largest and second largest cocoa producers, respectively.
Well-above average rainfall in some of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week raised fears of plantations flooding and poor quality beans, farmers said on Monday. The world’s top cocoa ...
The crop is grown in Ivory Coast mostly by smallholder farmers planting on 1 to 3 hectares. [10] The pods containing the beans are harvested when a sufficient number are ripe, opened to separate the seeds and pulp from the outer rind, and the seeds and pulp are usually allowed to ferment somewhere on the farm, before the seeds are dried in a central location.
By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hoped to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa. [7] As of 2019, there are still 1.56 million child laborers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. [8]
Ivory Coast and Ghana are cancelling all cocoa sustainability schemes that U.S.-based Hershey runs in their countries, accusing the chocolatemaker of trying to avoid paying a cocoa premium aimed ...
Ivory Coast is the world's leading producer of cocoa, accounting for more than 40 percent of global production, as of 2021. The cocoa bean is a small component of the cocoa plant. While the bean is transformed into chocolate, confectionery and cocoa drinks, the rest of the fruit is thrown away as waste. [2] [4]